31.   Libya breaks a U.N. ban on international air travel by sending a planeload of Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, and more flights are planned for Thursday.

32.   Meanwhile, a Libyan passenger jet said to be carrying Muslim pilgrims headed for Saudi Arabia on Thursday on a flight that apparently also would violate a U.N. embargo.

33.   Nigeria said it will send a special ambassador to Sudan on Sunday in hopes of negotiating the return of several planeloads of Muslim pilgrims grounded in Saudi Arabia.

34.   On Sunday, a fire erupted nearby in a high-rise apartment building housing hundreds of Muslim pilgrims, forcing residents to flee.

35.   Russia also fears that cholera might be brought by Muslim pilgrims from the southern region of Dagestan, who pass through central Russia on their way to Mecca.

36.   Russian officials have lifted a ban on foreign flights from the region to enable Maskhadov and other Muslim pilgrims to travel to Saudi Arabia.

37.   Several signs and a makeshift booth at the departure lounge for Muslim pilgrims collapsed in the winds.

38.   Russian officials have lifted a ban on foreign flights from breakaway Chechnya to enable Muslim pilgrims to travel to Saudi Arabia, a news agency reported Monday.

39.   Russian officials have lifted a ban on foreign flights from the breakaway region to enable Maskhadov and other Muslim pilgrims to travel to Saudi Arabia.

40.   Saudi Arabia denied reports Saturday that an outbreak of meningitis among Muslim pilgrims who recently traveled to Mecca had originated in the kingdom.